Light level geolocator - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_level_geolocatorUse day length and time at sunrise and sunset (actually "threshold time" when light intensity passes a certain threshold) to determine latitude and longitude. Advantage is light sensor-based loggers are much smaller and more power efficient than GPS. Via hn
Keras-based molecular autoencoder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12783673nonbeard 2016-10-25 23:40:22
Beyond Ctrl: Make That Caps Lock Key Useful - Economy of Effort
http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-make-that-caps-lock-key-useful/Remap caps lock to BOTH ctrl and escape, in advance of Apple's new BS esc-free laptop
rpi-open-firmware/README.md at master · christinaa/rpi-open-firmware · GitHub
https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/README.mdReverse-engineering the initial bootloading binary blob for rpi. Christinaa has been heavily involved in vc4 reverse engineering iirc?
RNA world - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_worldThe RNA world refers to the self-replicating ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules hypothesised to have been the precursors to all current life on Earth.
The Complete Android Activity/Fragment Lifecycle
http://staticfree.info/~steve/complete_android_fragment_lifecycle.png
"also known as the lolcycle" - hn
Amazon Web Services — a practical guide
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/570du2/_/nonbeard 2016-10-12 07:39:15
[Discussion] Hugo Larochelle's neural network & deep learning tutorial videos, subtitled & screengrabbed
http://www.reddit.com/r/machinelearning/comments/56zbbn/_/nonbeard 2016-10-12 03:21:19
Why video game coders don't use TDD, and why it matters
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/56z43c/_/nonbeard 2016-10-12 03:10:34
[1609.01596] Direct Feedback Alignment Provides Learning in Deep Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01596nonbeard 2016-10-11 22:10:13
Route Planning in Transportation Networks
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.05140.pdfRef contraction hierarchies, as used by OpenStreetMap.
Better Permissions in Android - William Edwards, Coder
http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13316924653/better-permissions-in-androidSymbian's permission system basically involves embedding
GitHub - Tetrachrome/subpixel: subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural net implementation with Tensorflow
https://github.com/Tetrachrome/subpixelnonbeard 2016-10-02 09:31:15
Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/09/21/who-the-hell-is-this-joyce/"So I ask: Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies and flashes of rendering? " It's not that bad.
Research Blog: The 280-Year-Old Algorithm Inside Google Trips
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/the-280-year-old-algorithm-inside.htmlA nice explanation of the intuition behind Christofides' algorithm, which gives an approximate solution to the travelling salesman problem.
dmarc.org – Domain Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance
https://dmarc.org/<warcraft 2 peon voice> more work?
A Soviet scientist created tame foxes
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160912-a-soviet-scientist-created-the-only-tame-foxes-in-the-world"Hare suspects that, "like the foxes, and like dogs, we became friendlier first, and then got smarter by accident. This would mean that our prosocial skills, the skills that allow for cooperation and friendliness, were what made us successful."" (HN)
Byzantine fault tolerance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_toleranceIn a consensus protocol, ability to reach consensus in the presence of faulty nodes which present different answers to different observers.
how does this twisty scroller work? :: pouët.net
http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7780&page=1more precalculated blitter copying but with text.
Help for code an effect called "Blitter Tornado" - English Amiga Board
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=79733Very nice use of blitter effect
Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/Nice intro to non-zlib compression techniques Finite State Entropy and Repcode Modelling... plus a lot of solid engineering work to get code running quickly on modern processors. (hn)
Fossil skulls reveal that blood flow rate to the brain increased faster than brain volume during human evolution | Open Science
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/8/160305nonbeard 2016-09-01 10:01:48
Web Scraping in 2016 | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345693No mucking about with wget, straight to selenium. Nice.
RNNs in Tensorflow, a Practical Guide and Undocumented Features – WildML
http://www.wildml.com/2016/08/rnns-in-tensorflow-a-practical-guide-and-undocumented-features/nonbeard 2016-08-21 22:35:47
Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282231A very heartening thread as it is mostly positive (also because I'm already doing almost all the suggestions mentioned in-thread to avoid idiotic antispam systems at large email providers).
Remove sensitive information from email headers with postfix - major.io
https://major.io/2013/04/14/remove-sensitive-information-from-email-headers-with-postfix/... except that you want to use smtp_header_checks rather than header_checks, as per comments, else you'll censor incoming mail too. This is useful (as per HN comments) because the X-Originating-IP is sometimes inspected for blacklisted IP ranges, and spamfiltered on match, by large email providers
Raft (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(computer_science)Raft is a consensus algorithm designed as an alternative to Paxos. It was meant to be more understandable than Paxos by means of separation of logic, but it is also formally proven safe and offers some new features.
Windowing Systems by Example: Introduction
http://www.trackze.ro/windowing-systems-learning-by-example-introduction/"The Academic Programmer: This person builds things to find out how things are built. If you are in this category, you shun libraries in lieu of reimplementing them yourself because you like learning by doing. You’re a lover of languages that do nothing for you, but also do their best to stay out from between you and the machine." (It gets worse after this.)
Paint Drip People
https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/paint-drip-people/1226700000696195the paint drip model of skills
Fun brain fact: 13 spikes per second is too much energy | neuroecology
https://neuroecology.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/fun-brain-fact-13-spikes-per-second-is-too-much-energy/nonbeard 2016-07-31 22:29:44
Altruism is favored by chance: Mathematicians may have found an answer to the longstanding puzzle as to why we have evolved to cooperate -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160719124256.htm"the total size of population that can be supported depends on the proportion of cooperators: more cooperation means more food for all and a larger population. If, due to chance, there is a random increase in the number of cheats then there is not enough food to go around and total population size will decrease. Conversely, a random decrease in the number of cheats will allow the population to grow to a larger size, disproportionally benefitting the cooperators." (schneier)
Sex-Typing Markers
http://www.cstl.nist.gov/strbase/sextype.htmsex typing with amelogenin
Book of Proof – An introduction to the methods of proving mathematical theorems
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/nonbeard 2016-07-16 18:30:08
USB Host Shield for Arduino Pro Mini « Circuits@Home
https://www.circuitsathome.com/products-page/arduino-shields/usb-host-shield-for-arduino-pro-mininonbeard 2016-07-15 12:40:14
Study proposes explanation for how cephalopods see color, despite black and white vision
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-07-explanation-cephalopods-black-white-vision.htmlMaybe chromatic abberation detected by altering focal distance of eye (via schneieronsecurity)
https://github.com/robertmeta/nofrils
https://github.com/robertmeta/nofrilsnonbeard 2016-07-06 21:11:55
CloudABI for Mac OS X, part three: thread-local storage
https://nuxi.nl/blog/2016/05/10/cloudabi-for-mac-part-3.htmlThe depressing state of fs register setting from userspace on Mac OS X. I wonder if hypervisor.framework would be a better way of handling this..
Amour-propre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amour-propreAmour-propre (French, "self-love") is a concept in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that esteem depends upon the opinion of others.
Mappings for Squaring the Disc - 1509.06344.pdf
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1509/1509.06344.pdfJust a lovely paper with different methods for representing points on a circle in a square and vice versa. Pictures, proofs if you want them, several choices of mapping function, analysis of what it means and desirable properties.
Cortex Amiga Floppy Emulator
https://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/wip
The Flying Frog Blog: Disadvantages of purely functional programming
http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/disadvantages-of-purely-functional.htmlnonbeard 2016-06-05 16:05:00
Language Log » The mysterious Interchange Level
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=26094Yay! My "Use all available doors" nerdview bitching has been legitimised by Language Log!
Oh, I'm such a happy Chewbacca! - vidme
https://vid.me/5WoZthis is a beautiful thing.
‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/opinion/24zizek.html?_r=0Zizek (or his editor) has a knack for a headline.
Antanaclasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasisthe stylistic scheme of repeating a single word or phrase, but with a different meaning.
Schizotypy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchizotypyIn psychology, schizotypy is a theory stating that there is a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states to more extreme states related to psychosis and in particular, schizophrenia.
Subjunctive Mood
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000031.htmIf love *were* a crime, then we would be criminals.
The Pigeons Nesting, Mating and Feeding Habits
http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Pigeons.htmlThe nesting habits of these birds are a bit unique. The male chooses a site in view of the female, selecting one stick and bringing it back, lays it in front of his mate. The female who stays at the nesting site accepts the sticks the male brings to her and places them underneath her.
Dual-phase evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-phase_evolution"Dual phase evolution (DPE) is a process that promotes the emergence of large-scale order in complex systems." There's something odd about this. It gives the example of people socialising and alternating between "local phase" (only interacting with people they know) and "global phase" (interactive with new people). But these phases are usually intermingled. So in what sense are they phases? Really all we are saying is that people interact with other people, and those other people are previously unknown with a certain (I guess low) probability.